The 4th!

I love the 4th of July...

Parades...fireworks...it's all so fun!

I LOVED the fire truck in the parade!

I think Cooper did too!

But my favorite thing is always the marching band!

this is just a cute picture of Cooper feeding himself!

After the parade we went to Park City to ride the slide and the coaster.

Mandy was staying at our house so she came too!

Oh...and Jeremy and Aiden and Jamie and Steve and Kensie rode on the rides too!

I tried to pull the sled for mom but it was too heavy.

This is me pretending so mom could take a picture!

I didn't get to ride with mom the last time we came so I was super excited to have her with me this time! She even let me drive.

After we had lots of fun at Park City we had a BBQ at our house.

And we got to do some fireworks!

And when it got dark...we watched lots of big fireworks in the sky...those are so cool!

I can't wait till the next 4th of July!

Fun with family...day 5

Sunday was our last day with our family.

Mom made salmon for dinner and it was yummy!

Then we got to make smores.

I LOVE smores.

"Mom, I just want the graham cracker and the marshmallow...no chocolate...and I don't want the marshmallow roasted".

So I ate mine while dad started the fire.

"good job dad!"

My aunts and mom's cousin Mackenzie were very serious about their marshmallow roasting.

Cameron made his own too!

I did finally roast some marshmallows...but they were for mom and dad...

mom ate 3...but she said it's okay because 1 was for the baby, 1 for her and 1 for her birthday...

whatever mom!

Then, because it was the 24th of July, we got to do fireworks.

and we watched snakes grow...and tanks fight.

and some were loud.

and some put off cool smoke.

It was lots of fun!

I really liked having my family here.

I miss Cameron already.

I get to see him and all my Jones family again in 3 weeks when we go camping and you can't even imagine how excited I am about that!

4th of July 2011

First thing this morning, after I got up made my bed and brushed my teeth...mom told me it was time to get dressed to go to the parade.

We went with Kevin and Trey and Addie came with us too.

And I got to wear my new shirt!

Jamie brought pops for all of us...I LOVE those things.

We threw lots and lots while we waited for the parade to start.

The people in the parade always throw candy.

I don't like it 'cause it sticks to my teeth.

I decided to try a blue one "cause it's my favorite color".

I chewed it for a long time, then it kept sticking, so I spit it out.

My favorite things in the parade were the jeeps that climb on each other...

(I have monster trucks at home that I made do the same thing)

and all the bands...

tubas are my favorite and if the band didn't have tubas I didn't really care about them.

The day was kind of cloudy and a little bit rainy...so we couldn't go to the pool like mom and dad wanted. I was okay with that because I just really wanted to stay home.

We did go to the park for a little bit...it was really hot out.

For dinner, Jo and Grace came over.

We did play in my pool for a long time.

And we roasted hot dogs on mom's new fire.

and we made smores.

I wanted one without chocolate.

Then I realized that it was a sticky mess.

So I didn't want it at all.

Mom REALLY likes them...she doesn't even care that they are sticky.

(in mom's defense...we roasted lots of marshmallows and so she had to make up lots of smores super fast...and then was holding them for us...of course, we didn't eat them...so mom did)

Then we got to light "fireworks".

Mom kept calling them that...but these are NOT fireworks.

We really liked the colored smoke...

and the tanks that shot each other.

After ours were all gone, me and dad walked around the neighborhood so I could take pictures of real fireworks...here's one of them.

At bedtime I told mom that I liked everything about today!